Motivational Quotes

Competition

The game isn't over until it's over.

- Berra, Yogi

Best Quotes about Competition

What it comes down to is that anybody can win with the best horse. What makes you good is if you can take the second or third-best horse and win.

Aragon, Vicky

I worked very hard. I felt I could play the game. The only thing that could stop me was myself.

Abbott, Jim

I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I Love to play.

Becker, Boris

I don't psyche myself up. I psyche myself down. I think clearer when I'm not psyched up.

Cauthen, Steve

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less.

Sampras, Pete

Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.

Saroyan, William

We have a lot of players in their first year. Some of them are also in their last year.

Walsh, Bill

Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on.

Hamill, Dorothy

10.

In this game, by trying to win; you automatically lose.

Ross, Ruth

11.

Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.

Lamb, Charles

12.

The key to any game is to use your strengths and hide your weaknesses.

Westphal, Paul

13.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

14.

When you step onto that field, you cannot concede a thing.

Sayers, Gayle

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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.

Hoagland, Edward

17.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

18.

Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.

Leonard, George

19.

Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.

Goldsmith, Oliver

20.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

21.

A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.

Lopez, Nancy

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Once you're physically capable of winning a gold medal, the rest is ninety percent mental.

Johnson, Patti

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This is a tough game. There are times when you've got to play hurt, when you've got to block out the pain.

O'Neal, Shaquille

24.

You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave -- win or lose.

Howe, Gordie

25.

The biggest things are often the easiest to do because there is so little competition.

Horne, William Van

26.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

27.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

28.

We want to be first; not first if, not first but; but first!

Kennedy, John F.

29.

Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first.

Jipcho, Ben

30.

If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.

Tarkenton, Fran

31.

The weakness of an enemy forms part of our own strength.

Saying

32.

There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

Proverb, Indian

33.

Hail Caesar, those who are about to die salute you.

Gladiator's Salute

34.

If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.

Smith, Dean

35.

Competition is a process or variety of habitual behavior that grows out of a habit of mind.

Beecher, Willard

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How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

Holtz, Lou

37.

After the game the King and pawn go into the same box.

Proverb, Italian

38.

Show me a guy who is afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

Brock, Lou

39.

How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.

Trevino, Lee

40.

When I go our on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

Witt, Katarina

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For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes -- not that you won or lost -- but how you played the Game.

Rice, Grantland

42.

I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar.

Richards, Bob

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I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?

Durocher, Leo

44.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To free the mind from the habit of competition, we must see in detail the process by which the mind is ensnared by competition.

Beecher, Marguerite

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The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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World trade means competition from anywhere; advancing technology encourages cross-industry competition.Consequently, strategic planning must consider who our future competitors will be, not only who is here today.

Allison, Eric

49.

The game isn't over until it's over.

Berra, Yogi

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The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation.

Cooley, Charles Horton